Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

SOON after the opening of our boarding
department, quite a number of students who
evidently were worthy, but who were so poor
that they did not have any money to pay even the
small charges at the school, began applying for
admission. This class was composed of both men
and women. It was a great trial to refuse admission to these applicants, and in 1884 we established
a night-school to accommodate a few of them.

The night-school was organized on a plan similar to the one which I had helped to establish at Hampton. At first it was composed of about a
dozen students. They were admitted to the nightschool only when they had no money with which
to pay any part of their board in the regular day-
school. It was further required that they must
work for ten hours during the day at some trade
or industry, and study academic branches for two
hours during the evening. This was the requirement for the first one or two years of their stay.

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